Now available; the Push x Northern board!
'Today's News is Tomorrow's Fish & Chip Paper'
200 made, 4 sizes- a 'normal' 8"/8.25"/8.5", and a cool little cruiser shape; 50 of each.
Each board comes with a postcard and sticker. Order here.
Stoked on these..!
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Bobby Worrest- wallie to street, New York; photo: Hart
From PP2's New York is Now article, Worrest at play under the rickety train tracks.
Featuring in the highly anticipated new video from Colin Read- Spirit Quest, premiering around the world in mid/late August.
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Jesse Narvaez, no comply pole jam, SF; photo:Hart
Jesse getting down on Market street, as seen in PP3, the 'Of SF' issue.
Stay tuned for more moves from Jesse and the rest of the Northern Co crew in LA, coming soon in PP4...
Also now available is a limited edition Push X NorCo deck.
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Barlow and Chamberlin, all a-sprinkle, photo: Hart
Tonight (Fri 20 May) in San Francisco!
The premiere of Zach Chamberlin's long-awaited Bright Moments video.
Features Matt Field, Ryan Barlow, Jesse Narvaez, Tobin Valverde, Carlos Young, Trevor Thompson, Evan Kinori, Ben Gore and many others; skating SF, Tokyo, Marseille and elsewhere..
If you are in SF, meet at the DMV at 8pm and await instructions to see the guerilla-style screening!
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Sprinkle Model Agency, photo: Hart
New shirt available in very limited quantities, see SHOPPE above.
Artwork by Joe Roberts. 360 flip by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Only available here and now.
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Stevie Perez, 50/50, Tainan; photo: Hart
If you haven't seen the GX1000 video yet, prepare yourself..!
It contains some really raw street skating, like Stevie's one-push, second-try, early pop-out grinder, here...
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Ben Gore, kickflip, SF; photo: Hart
From the 5x5x5 feature in PP3.
(In which Ben gives us 5 of his SF top 5's, alongside 5 skate photos.)
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Probably Jason Adams, SF DMV; photo: Hart
Push 3 Of SF MMXV is now out and about, a documentation of the last year in San Francisco skateboarding.. but really, this picture probably sums it up reasonably well.
Barlow/ Field/ Chamberlin, SF; photo: Hart
PP3 Of SF is finally out.
This is a special all-San Francisco 2015 issue featuring Jon Nguyen, Hjalte Halberg, Dennis Busenitz, Matt Town, Jesse Narvaez, Alex Campbell, Jake Johnson and probably Jason Adams. To name but a few. There is also an SF Top-5's article with Ben Gore and, as they say, more.
This one features the work of talented humans Joe Brook, Lance Dawes, Adam Schneider, Dave Chami, Thomas Busuttil and the wonderfully bizarre art of Joe Roberts.
You can buy it from here, or from numerous other places of good taste. If you are in Europe/ Japan/ Australia, there are copies on their way to distributors there, so be patient to save postage costs.
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Push Sprinkles Of SF Edit
VX visionary Zach Chamberlin took time out from editing his forthcoming Sprinkles vid to make this special edit to accompany the new Push Periodical Of SF issue.
All of the tricks are featured in the magazine.
Skaters: Ryan Barlow, Leo Valls, Jesse Narvaez, Matt Town, Alex Greemann, Matt Finley, Matt Field, Ben Gore.
Music by Monk.
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(Bomb Hills not Countries) photo: Hart
Push Periodical #3 'OF S.F.' is coming soon.
This is a special issue affiliated with our friends at De Paris Yearbook who make annual skate photo books of Paris and London.
PP3 will feature strictly film photos shot in SF in 2015.
The release party will take place on Weds 6th April (7-10pm) at The Growlery, 235 Broderick, SF.
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Taylor Nawrockin' the Style Over Stunts shirt, now available.
(See SHOPPE page..)
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Hiroki Muraoka, ollie, Tokyo; photo: Hart
Hiroki blasting one, ninja-style, in the busy streets of Shinjuku late one night.
From his 'In a Sentence' feature in PP2.
Howard Cooke, mighty bank transfer, London 2005; photo: Hart
One day perhaps I will write at greater length about one of my all time favourite skaters, H. But for now, here is a photo taken from the Long Lost London article in PP2, which features some pictures I shot in the summer of 2005. They were meant to form an article for Slap which never happened. This picture did get run, however, and even though I don't intent to re-use too many pictures in Push, I decided to include this one, as it is one of the most amazing tricks I have ever witnessed or shot. I didn't think it was really possible but I was perhaps forgetting that H is an untamed beast.. Much love, H!
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Don Brider has a colourful resumé in skateboarding. From being one of the first British street skaters, to producing everything from zines, boards, T-shirts and videos to.. subversive stickers. And that is where the story of this graphic begins.
In the mid/late 80’s, Vision Skateboards’ clothing brand, Vision Street Wear, was supposedly the biggest money-maker that skating had ever known, and Don’s response to the then-omnipresent VSW logo was to make a sticker reworking it as ‘Victim Street Wear’; a comment on the many band-wagon-jumping fashion victims (and a dig at Vision itself, a company whose ethics he did not approve of).
Don B at 'Handrail Land', Southampton, late 80's; photo: Abbott
Vision, of course, didn’t take kindly to this criticism, and soon, Don had reworked the (fashion) Victim idea..
The origins of the ‘Zone’ graphic are hazy. I seem to recall Don telling me that he had lifted it from a record shop ‘Christmas Free Zone’ logo on a carrier bag, or something..
In any case, in the first version, it was his then-board sponsor Brand X who declared a Victim Free Zone.
(And one of my earliest skate memories is seeing Don B, with McSqueeb haircut and patterned beret, slapping a Victim sticker on the train door opposite me, when I found myself in the same carriage as him en route from Southampton to Southsea skatepark for the Shut Up And Skate contest, as a youngster. It was my first trip to Southsea (or any skatepark).. and I think I may have just unlocked, like a good psychologist, the reason I got him to make these stickers for me.. But I digress..)
The design got updated in the early 90’s for Don’s clothing company Wear and Tear, when they, too, declared a Victim Free Zone. As such, it was a graphic that was always ‘around’ in British skating of that period.
Don B at Dead Rabbit's, Winchester, early 90's; photo: TLB (?)
And now, as a tribute to those days, that man, and the abolishment of fashion victims; here it is again (see 'SHOPPE' above). Hand screen-printed by Don B himself and available in limited quantities-
Push Declare a Victim Free Zone.
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PP2 is currently infiltrating the display cabinets of skateboard vendors worldwide.
US shops should contact me directly for copies. Shops in the UK, please contact Rock Solid; in France contact Magenta; in Spain contact Pier; in Japan contact Kukunochi; in Australia/NZ contact Pact.
If you are not a shop but a human being, check out the mail-order services provided by Palomino in UK/Europe, Magenta in France/Europe, Pact in Oz/NZ. And if you are an American human being, try Theories or Quasi.
There are also magazines and a few other tasty Push Products available to be shipped worldwide, if you click the 'SHOPPE' tab, above..
May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.
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Jason Spivey, 50/50, NYC; photo: Hart
Love watching this guy skate; look out for him in the new Threadcleaner video and TWS video (TC DVD is free with first 100 copies of PP2, and vid will also be online soonish).
Photo taken from the New York is Now article in PP2. If you are having trouble finding the mag, you can now order it direct from here; see that 'SHOPPE' tab up there ^^^? Other goodies too..
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The first 100 copies of PP2 sold worldwide will come with a free Threadcleaner DVD.
This is the new full-length vid from the Threads Idea Vacuum lads, who previously brought you Headcleaner.
It features too many people to list, amongst them PP2 cover boy Cromer and Push Pal Ryan Barlow. There is a second video included on the disc, introducing The Vacation Skateboards whose team includes Jason Spivey, David Clark, Brian Powderly and others..
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Cover- Brad Cromer, 50/50, NY; photo: Hart
Push Periodical Issue 2 is the 'Metropolis' issue, with articles from New York, Tokyo, Taipei and London.
The NY article is written by Anthony Pappalardo with photographic contributions from Pep Kim. It features Bobby Worrest, Zered Bassett, Jason Spivey and others.
There is a long-lost London article originally intended for Slap in 2005, featuring Paul Shier, Nick Jensen, Howard Cooke and others.
The third article is of the GX1000 crew in Japan and Taiwan, skating some amazing spots..
Contributors to this issue also include Raymond Molinar, Dave Bevan, Benjamin Deberdt and Jeremy Fish.
PP2 will be available very soon.
Stay tuned for more developments..
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